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Burney MS 141

Record Id:

040-002237022

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000bd

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 141

Title:

Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, imperfect

Scope & Content:

Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ff. 1r-114v), lacking 5.2.6-5.5.3 (from ‘istum ve[hementer]’ to ‘Atque ipsum’) due to the loss of a leaf after f. 25r.

Inscribed in near contemporary script (before the loss of a leaf after f. 25r) with a leaf-count: ‘nu(mer)o 115 cartar(um)’ (f. 114v). Marginalia in Italian (e.g. f. 54r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237022

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 141 : Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, imperfect

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0136]/040-002237022

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Paper codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Greek
Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper (watermark: a gothic ‘M’, closest to Briquet 8348: Pistoia, 1412; Fabriano, 1406-1413).

Dimensions: 295 x 215 mm (text space 195 x 140 mm), typically 32-34 lines. Frame-ruled in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. iii + 120 (ff. i-iii, 118-120 are flyleaves).

Collation: i-ii¹² (ff. 1-24), iii^12-1 (2nd leaf missing; ff. 25-35), iv-ix¹² (ff. 36-107), x¹⁰ (ff. 108-117). Catchwords.

Script: Humanistic, written 'above top line'. Spaces left for Greek words, occasionally filled by an inexpert hand; spaces left for initials.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of diced calf; the first (but not last) leaves with holes caused by the metal corner-pieces of a former binding. Traces of a fore-edge title.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Perhaps sold at Christie’s, 19 May 1803, lot 48, bought by Burney.

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.

Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.

Administrative Context:

Italy.

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 51.

C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Distionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: The Paper Publications Society, 1968), nos. 8348.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600